As announced yesterday, Logistics Plus Inc was proud to announce that Jim Berlin, its founder and CEO, was recognized Tuesday, March 3rd, with a “CEO Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award” by Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work, at its 3rd annual Leadership Awards Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons in San Francisco.
If you’re interested, here is a copy of the short acceptance speech that Jim delivered at the ceremony:
“Thank you to Michael Bush and everyone here at Great Place to Work. Your efforts help inspire companies and leaders to create the best workplaces in the world, and to recognize them when they do. Thank you for that. Our formula at Logistics Plus has been pretty simple and it really hasn’t really changed much in the 24 years we’ve been in business.
Surround yourself with good people. Communicate. Treat them well.
Honesty. Integrity. As my Dad always told me, ‘In the end, your good name is all that’s left’.
‘Give a shit’. That matters more than most people think.
Find ways to YES; It’s easy in our industry to say ‘No…sorry…can’t do that’. BUT people LOVE folks who bring them SOLUTIONS/and not PROBLEMS. We are a SOLUTIONS company. We find ways to YES!
KISS—Keep it simple. Find simplifiers/not complicators.
We have very few company rules other than The Golden Rule: Treat people as you’d like to be treated. Just follow that/we’ll be ok. The rest we can figure out as we go.
Focus on the MISSION, not just the money. Success at one will lead to the other.
Have and maintain a ‘Passion for Excellence’ (that has been our ‘trademark’ since Day 1).
And strive to grow. Growing is challenging but fun. (If someone ever complains about the pace of our growth, I always tell them: ‘If you don’t like growing pains…you’re REALLY gonna not like dying pains’).
And lastly … try and make work fun. If people like to be there, everyone benefits. We all spend more time with our workmates than we do with anyone else. Make it enjoyable to be there—not drudgery.
For our part, at least, this simple formula seems to be working. Logistics Plus has grown from 3 of us to become a $300 million global organization in 20 countries with thousands of customers and almost 450 talented and caring employees around the world. This ex-truckdriver couldn’t be more humbled or more proud of these fine people. Thanks again for this fantastic honor and for a most memorable and inspirational evening.”
– Jim Berlin, Founder & CEO, Logistics Plus Inc.
Jim joined a 2020 awards list that includes fewer than 50 CEOs from some of the most admired companies in the world, such as American Express, Delta, DHL, Marriott, Salesforce, and Wegmans. A PDF copy of the program with a complete list of CEO honorees and profiles is available here (Jim’s profile is on page 11). Jim’s profile is also shown below:
Jim Berlin Honored with CEO Great Place to Work® For All Leadership Award
The award was presented last night at the 3rd annual Great Place to Work Leadership Awards Gala Dinner.
ERIE, PA (March 4, 2020) – Logistics Plus Inc., a leading worldwide provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions, is proud to announce that Jim Berlin, its founder and CEO, was recognized with a “CEO Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award.” The award was presented last night by Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work, at its 3rd annual Leadership Awards Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons in San Francisco.
The “For All Leader” awards recognize company leaders for long-term dedication and commitment to the development of every employee, for connecting diverse people to a common purpose, practicing humility and empathy, adapting to uncertainty, and for fostering trusting relationships across the organization. The CEO recipients were selected from companies that appear on Fortune’s annual lists of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women, the 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity, and the 150 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For.
“Thank you to Michael Bush and everyone here at Great Place to Work for the work you do to inspire companies and leaders to create the best workplaces in the world, and to recognize them when they do,” said Berlin. “My formula at Logistics Plus has been pretty simple. Surround yourself with good people. Treat them well. Communicate. Make work fun. If you do those things and you hire the right people, they’ll stay forever.”
In recognizing the honorees, Great Place to Work CEO Michael C. Bush said “The financial performance of these organizations and the industry leading commitment to corporate responsibility provide strong evidence that when you create a great place to work for all, it is better for business, better for people and better for the world.”
Mr. Berlin joins a 2020 awards list that includes fewer than 50 CEOs from some of the most admired companies in the world, such as American Express, Delta, DHL, Marriott, Salesforce, and Wegmans. The complete list of honorees is available here (Jim’s profile is on page 11).
About Great Place to Work
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, it has surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and uses those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Great Place to Work’s unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the U.S. and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best list published annually by Fortune. Everything it does is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All™. To learn more, visit greaplacetowork.com.
About Logistics Plus Inc.
Logistics Plus Inc. provides freight transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, global logistics, business intelligence technology, and supply chain management solutions through a worldwide network of talented and caring professionals. The company was founded over 23 years ago in Erie, PA by local entrepreneur, Jim Berlin. Today, Logistics Plus is a highly-regarded fast-growing and award-winning transportation and logistics company. With a strong passion for excellence, its 450 global employees put the “plus” in logistics by doing the big things properly, and the countless little things, that together ensure complete customer satisfaction and success.
The Logistics Plus® network includes offices located in Erie, PA; Akron, OH; Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL; Buffalo, NY; Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Fort Worth, TX; Haslet TX; Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; Lexington, NC; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, FL; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Olean, NY; Ontario, CA; San Bernardino, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Tampa Bay, FL; Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Canada; China; Colombia; Czech Republic; Egypt; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Libya; Mexico; Netherlands; Poland; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Taiwan; Turkey; UAE; Ukraine; Uganda; and United Kingdom; with additional agents around the world. For more information, visit www.logisticsplus.com or follow @LogisticsPlus on Twitter.
Logistics Plus Belgium completed the successful delivery of a cryogenic storage tank from Antwerp to Ghent. The tank, measuring 15 x 4 x 4 meters and weighing 30 tons, was transported by the Logistics Plus project cargo team. This is now the 5th tank in the last 2 years that has been delivered to Belgium.
“Logistics Plus has become very familiar with transporting these storage tanks,” said Frederik Geirnaert, Global Projects Manager for Logistics Plus. “Although each tank presents a different challenge for our team, we continue to deliver them on time, every time.”
Jim Berlin, the Founder & CEO of Logistics Plus, was interviewed live on Bloomberg Radio on Friday, February 28th to discuss the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) has had on global supply chains. In particular, Jim discussed how the logistics industry is tightening up, the long-term effects, and the shortage of transportation options.
Check out the Flickr slideshow below with photographs taken at the Bloomberg Radio studio in New York City by Cecile Fradkin,
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Gretchen Blough, Licensed Customs Broker and Brokerage Manager for Logistics Plus, was featured on a recent airing of the Marketplace podcast hosted by Kai Ryssdal of National Public Radio (NPR). Gretchen makes regular appearances on Marketplace due to her unique insight into the ongoing U.S. trade wars and tariff changes. In this latest segment, Gretchen discusses the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) has had on companies’ global supply chains.
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Adam Mook, Compliance Department Manager for Logistics Plus, recently completed an Introduction to Incoterms® 2020 Webinar. Approximately every 10 years, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) releases an updated version of Incoterms®. This year, the new Incoterms® 2020 rules went into effect on January 1, 2020.
Surround yourself with good people. Communicate. Treat them well.
Gretchen Blough
